Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between xAI's Grok 2 mini and Alibaba / Qwen's Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — Together AI.
• Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — Together AI: Listed on Together AI catalog at $0.80/M in, $0.80/M out. The serverless endpoint is launching soon and not yet live in production.
• Grok 2 mini: Classified as a Legacy Reference model (Generally Available).
• Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — Together AI: Classified as a Legacy Reference model (Listed ($0.80/M) — Endpoint Launching Soon (Not Live)).
| Metric | Grok 2 mini | Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — Together AI | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | xAI | Alibaba / Qwen | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $0.20 | $0.80 | Grok 2 mini (75% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | None | None | Grok 2 mini lower |
| Output / 1M | $1.00 | $0.80 | Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — Together AI lower |
| Context Window | 128k | 128k | Equal |
| Max Generation Tokens | 8.2k | 8.2k | Grok 2 mini |
| Tokenizer Family | xAI Byte-level BPE (~131k vocabulary) | Qwen Byte-level BPE (~152k vocabulary) | — |
Opt for Grok 2 mini when your engineering requirements prioritize xAI's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated xAI Tokenizer (±3%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $0.2/M input rate.
Opt for Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — Together AI when looking for Alibaba / Qwen's tooling integration, specific context window depth (128k tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $0.8/M rate.